In the words of DiapDealer (this just sums it all up, it's my new quotable quote),
"I don't value a well-written book that I didn't like any more than a badly-written book that I didn't like."
Sturgeon's Law:
Quote:
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Ninety percent of everything is crap.
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Yes, most self-published books are garbage.
That did not come as a surprise to
me. I am happy just thinking about the good ones.
How do I find good self-published books? The same way I find good trad-pubbed books.
Someone whose taste in books I trust, suggested it.
Or, I've read books by that author before.
Or, it sounded interesting, I took a look at the first few chapters, and it grabbed my attention -- so I gambled on it.
Nothing has changed going from tradpub to self-pub. Except there are more self-pubbed books, and therefore proportionately, more self-pubbed crap.
I never *did* just read anything that had a well-known publisher written on it.
I had to sift through the
edited dreck to find the gems for myself.